FFG Present The Glorious Legend Of The Five Rings RPG Core Book
June 12, 2018 by brennon
Fantasy Flight Games has previewed the beautiful looking Core Book for the Legend Of The Five Rings Roleplaying Game.
The Core Book will come with everything you need to create characters and explore the world of Rokugan. Whilst the Beginner Game gives you plenty of options to get you started, this book takes things to the next level with a plethora of customisation options and a very cool questionnaire which helps you build the narrative behind your samurai.
The questions help to build up the background of your character but also the mechanical benefits that you'll enjoy in game too. You will also find a wonderful range of skills, talents and more for your characters to use during stories.
The Core Book also looks beautiful as you'll see in the preview above.
Additional Accessories
The Core Book release also comes out alongside some additional releases to help add to the game. Of course, you'll need some of the special dice.
And, as well as the special dice which help spell out the narrative aspects of the game, you also have a beautiful Game Master Screen which helps hide your intentions from the other players.
This game is looking beautiful and it seems that Fantasy Flight Games has really put in the effort to make this feel like a very different role-playing game. It has all of the things that made the old role-playing game great but with a few twists to give it that edge of quality.
Are you going to be delving into the world of Rokugan?
"The Core Book also looks beautiful..."
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This is the 6th edition now? Between having 3 previous editions on my shelf and the annoying custom dice I think I’ll pass on this one. The GM screen is nice though. I might pick one up and just cover over the rules side with the charts and tables from the last edition. I have a hard time resisting beautiful artwork covered GM screens.
I’ve heard many good things about this rpg. If I was to try and get into it is this the book I would start with? Are there other books as well?
Yeah the game has a good reputation, but this reputation was build by AEG and now its Fantasy Flight that are redoing it from the ground up. There will be a L5R starter set by FFG too and for sure the will be a ton of supplements IF the game sells well but nothing has been released yet. You might want to consider getting into L5R 4th Edition, which you might find still in shops or could hunt down 2nd hand. I still have pristine copy of the 4th edition core rules if youd want to go 4th and there… Read more »
The book has FFG’s usual high production standards by the looks of it. Personally, I much preferred the cover from 4th edition (which is the version I’ll stick with).
Book and GM’s cover do look good but those dice look far too weird.
We played a ton of 4th L5R 4th which was released by AEG.
I was quite suprised hearing that FFG took over the RPG and after the first previews of the FFG L5R some time ago corebook there was a lot of critique of the new system. I dont now if the issues are solved but in general I am not too keen on FFGs RPG products.
To me they are like the EA of analogue gaming.
L5R is my favorite roleplaying game of all time. I’ve played since 1st edition. The custom dice scared me at first. But after playing the FF Star Wars a few times, you adjust to them. And they actually add a lot to the game by giving it a very cinematic feel. It looks beautiful and FF has done well so far. I’m in.